When will a US government AI run overtake private AI compute by FLOP?
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2035
1.9%
<2026
15%
<2027
23%
<2028
31%
<2029
50%
<2030
66%
<2035
50%
>=2035

By what year will the most FLOP intensive run have been conducted or owned by the US federal government? Resolves Yes on all later years.

Qualifying events:

  • Any arrangement (contractors, national labs etc.) under which the US government employees have the right to control what queries are run on the model.

  • Any international collaboration where the US retains model query veto rights, but does not include international collaboration where the US is a stakeholder having e.g. a minority vote.

  • If the US government seizes control over the current most FLOP-intensive pre-existing AI this qualifies.

  • Any unanticipated event which clearly satisfies the spirit of this question

Government-controlled AI runs will be compared to the most FLOP-intensive AI run by a US-registered company i.e. we are excluding non-US runs.

(In case this happened long ago incidentally at some national lab, we'll only count post-2023 runs.)

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"Resolves Yes on all later years."

I assume this doesn't apply to the >=2035 bin. Like, if it happens in 2029, the <2035 resolves YES but >=2035 resolves NO?

@MaxHarms Correct

How does this resolve if the US govt takes control of a pre-existing model?

@DavidRein Good point. I'd say if the pre-existing model holds the FLOP record, then that would be sufficient for resolving positively. Will write that in for now. Open to argument if anyone wants to chime in here.